{"id":8887,"date":"2025-09-08T02:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T02:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/8887\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T02:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T02:08:09","slug":"tom-phillips-shot-dead-by-police-officer-critically-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/8887\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Phillips shot dead by police, officer critically injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">What to know:<\/p>\n<p>Tom Phillips was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/09\/08\/tom-phillips-fatally-shot-by-police-two-children-yet-to-be-located\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/09\/08\/tom-phillips-fatally-shot-by-police-two-children-yet-to-be-located\/\">fatally shot by police<\/a>\u00a0early Monday morning in Waikato after allegedly firing at an officer during a burglary response near Piopio.One police officer was critically injured, shot in the head at close range, and airlifted to Waikato Hospital for multiple surgeries.One of Phillips\u2019 three missing children was found at the scene\u00a0and was now in police custody, receiving wraparound support.Police were conducting &#8220;urgent inquiries&#8221;\u00a0to locate the remaining two children, with a large cordon in place on Te Anga Rd expected to remain for several days.The children\u2019s mother released a statement, expressing relief that the ordeal is ending, sadness over how events unfolded, and gratitude to those who supported the wh\u0101nau over the past four years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Follow 1News live updates on the situation below. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to know: Tom Phillips was fatally shot by police\u00a0early Monday morning in Waikato after allegedly firing at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-8887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-crime-and-justice","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}